Contrariant Quotes & Sayings

Writers transform: they throw a hand grenade into the notion of reality that people carry around in their heads. That's very dangerous, very destructive, but not to do it means you are satisfied with the status quo - and that's a kind of danger as well, because a kind of violence is already being perpetuated. — John Edgar Wideman

I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible. — Sarah Schulman

You're only as good or bad as your latest attempt to make some connection with the world ... — Steve Lopez

Today's energy mix is the result of yesterday's consumer habits, considerable investment, and various political decisions. The potential of renewable energies, now a well-established fact, is undeniable if given the time to arrive at the technical and economic maturity that will free them from subsidization policies. — Christophe De Margerie

If you are talented, don't sit in the darkness, light a candle so that others can see you. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Do you feel safe there?"
Immediately tears come down my face. "Yes."
"Why does that make you cry? — Jolene Perry

And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened. — Herman Melville

The only way to hook the devil is to use an angel as bait. — Ann Stewart

I'm not a sucker for happily ever afters, but if these two characters don't get theirs I might climb inside this e-reader and lock them both inside that damn garage forever. — Colleen Hoover

I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get. — Patrick Stump

Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so would the average lawyer. — Gracie Allen

If you could avoid all your mistakes, you'd miss everything you learned from them. — Marie Forleo

Through the years, I have helped thousands of children who were ill or in distress. — Michael Jackson